Jazz dance, an extension of the long and short continent dance, was brought to the United States from slaves and gradually evolved into a localized popular dance in the United States.
African blacks are expected to be in the United States and around the world because they have suffered from the slave trade for about 300 years. In the new situation and new life, I live a miserable slave life. Although in this tragic situation, I still haven't forgotten their music and dance. Whether in the meeting of joy, anger, sadness and joy, or in the worship of God, whenever there is an opportunity, they will sing the songs of their hometown and dance their approachable dances, so over time, they will gradually become jubilant and cosmopolitan music and dance. Because of their endless innovation, they discovered new dance steps, and gradually Americans became interested in these rhythmic black dances.
Jazz dance developed with the natural accompaniment of jazz in the early 20th century. The earliest jazz dance was performed by black ballroom dancing accompanied by jazz, which was popular in rural areas in the southern United States, especially some amateur dancers in New Orleans. They will perform jazz dance at parties or clubs. 19 17, when the popular dancers performed according to the dictionary. A man named W. Benton Overstreet wrote a song called "The Jazz Dance". The "Jazz Dance" in this song has always been synonymous with jazz dance, and the name of jazz dance has also come into being.
When jazz dance was presented in the form of "dance music", black and white dancers improved and changed the basic norms. In addition, they also inspired the latecomers to innovate, adding hip swing, chestnut shoulders and independent movements of other parts of the body. Since 1920, black people in New Orleans began to play their jazz music, many rock dances with mixed styles have been very popular, such as Charleston, Summer and Call. Later, due to the birth of Boogie-Woogie, the dance style has changed a lot.
From the second half of 1930 to April of 1940, jazz dance evolved into three implicit styles: the first is modern jazz dance with strong classical ballet flavor, the second is jazz dance influenced by black people and Latin dance, and the last is assimilation jazz dance with humorous music and tap dance. Although jazz dance was very popular at that time, it began to decline at the end of 1940, because the new jazz music replaced the old jazz band, and its music rhythm was too complicated to match the dance. In addition, the discovery of the phonograph and the heavy taxes imposed by the government (the United States) on the dance floor have caused many dance clubs that were once in the limelight to go bankrupt.
Although it is the decline of old jazz dance, it just represents a' ceremony of connecting the past with the future and forging ahead'. Because the United States is an approachable melting pot, new jazz dance also has a high degree of integration; It combines the jazz dance steps of the older generation with the new dance steps that were all the rage in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. It also contributed to the rise of mass media and the prosperity of jazz dance.
The jazz dance we see today retains the characteristics of syncopated music melody (see note), throwing limbs or independent operation, but it can be performed not only with jazz music, but also with pop music, blues music, rock music or disco music. Today's jazz dance has great inclusiveness and plasticity, and it can receive the most popular music and dance features at any time. Because of this, jazz dance is very entertaining and accepted and taken over by the public.
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